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Show 1 9 0 4 .] MR. R. LYDEKKER ON TWO LORISES. 3 4 5 Hope by Sir Thomas Adams in the Terpsicore Man-of-War and presented to her Majesty [Queen Charlotte]. 1762." I think there is considerable probability that this print (text-fig. 89) and the royal picture were taken from one and the same animal, although the general drawing and the details of the stripes are far less true to nature in the former than in the latter ; but Kehrer's portrait could not have been done at the Hague while the animal was en route for England, and there is no record of its having been taken there later. If both pictures represent the same animal, Queen Charlotte's Zebra, as the individual represented in the old print may be called, appears to have been the first of its kind ever brought to England. 7. On Two Lorises. By R. L y d e k k e r . [Received October 31, 1904.J (Plate XXIII.*) The Trustees of the British Museum have recently purchased from Rowland Ward, Ltd., two mounted specimens of Lorises belonging to forms hitherto unfigured, and one of which I regard as new ; the first specimen being a Slow Loris (Nycticebus), and the second a Slender Loris (Loris). Both of these genera, it may be observed, appear to be represented only by a single species, if we except the ill-defined JV. menagensis of the Philippines. Whereas, however, several local forms of the Slow Loris have been recognised, the Slender Loris has hitherto been undivided. As regards the Slow Loris, Messrs. Stone and Rehn, in the ‘ Proceedings' of the Philadelphia Academy for 1902 (pp. 138 & 139), recognised five local forms, namely, Nycticebus tardigradus t typicus of India, X. t. javanicus, N. t. mcdayanus, N. t. natunce, and JV. t. hilleri (of Sumatra); the two last being described for the first time. In addition to these there is the Tenasserim form, of which no examples were at the time available. The first two of the five races mentioned above are grouped together in a section characterised by the general colour being ashy grey, slightly tinged with rufous, while the crown of the head is not marked by a large patch of brown. In the three remaining races, on the other hand, the general colour is rufes-cent grey, and the crown of the head has a large brown patch. Omitting mention of the Natuna Islands' form, the Malay race- as represented in the collection of the British Museum by three mounted specimens from Penang (PI. XXIII. fig. 1), the* gift of Capt. Stanley Flower-is characterised by the general rufescent grey tone of the fur, and the strongly pronounced rufous-brown crown-patch and dorsal stripe j. This crown-patch has a pair of lines extending transversely outwards to the ears, and another * For explanation of the Plate, see p. 346. f Messrs. Stone & Rehn substitute the name coucang. J This does not accord with Messrs. Stone & Rehn's description. |
